#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

6591.728 - 6623 Mouin Rabbani

The other point I wanted to make is we've spent the past several hours talking about Zionism transfer and so on, but I think there's a more fundamental aspect to this, which is that Zionism, I think, would have emerged and disappeared as yet one more utopian political project, had it not been for the British, what the preeminent Palestinian historian, Waleed Khalidi, has termed the British shield.